China’s attempt to crack down on illegal prostitution has increased police brutality against sex workers. Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch tells us why China’s sex workers have no rights.

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... the the ... on a legal process has actually led to an increase of brutality against women ... I'm Deborah con joining me now is in Nicholas Buckland a few minutes to ... get to see ... us ... okay so what are we talking about here what are some of the in the ad he says that you have the cover ... while our investigation has shown that the Chinese police engaged in widespread abuses of women when teaching sex work ... including beings that torturer of the tree detention flying is the rockets chain is a very lonely it's ... basically this in a fair game for the police ... and a police conducts very ... tough sweeps against prostitution regularly ... at with a deep and large number of people detained them ... one specificity in China I is that if you are a sex worker you can be sent to up to two years in detention ... in a red indication from a repair for Casa de an education center ... without a trial without them know we are without any kind of due process as a sale process is is actually illegal in time Aso isn't a case and ... there's a more crackdown today or are there just more women who are becoming prostitutes yet that's the beginning of Chrissy in China is that on paper prosecution bowl full of sets were completely legal and absolutely no ... toleration ... but in practice this finish huge growth of the sex industry over the past few decades ... and government officials I truly one of the main ... clients ... of these new industry along ... with business people and and so on ... so ... what is happening is that you have an industry that is basically tolerate it but then the government will not ... know these people ... to even ask about the ride so had to ... be recognized as being of citizens who are engaging in one particular kind of ... the work ... there is evidence that another of the fleece at cracking down even more or aam is it that when these hidden gone unnoticed for some time ... yet while one of the problem is that the ... man in his campaign site getting Honda and Hyundai taken six wickets ... and there's a lot of brutality loss of the tree detention ... this for the police it's also one way of imposing fines and rising the chips so this has done really completely unchecked in one of the reason ... is that the police's crackdown on sex workers organizations so no one in China can speak for sex with is because as soon as you stop doing this the places on your case the very very few sex workers activists in China ... and it's a very big difference with other countries in a jet way you have it expects industry but you also have another an Geo's lots of ... organization of sex workers ... in China you have known of events that a sale and bought all I really that this isn't a legal practice in China because of this said these people don't have ... any rights especially against fatality ... due to tok to sex workers in China that will tell you ... the number one concern his client's finances of police violence ... but through these financing contributing to this ... FICO's ... six workers were victim of violence will not turn to the police when they have faked and because the police's de appears there in the first place to set aside for legalizing prostitution what really does he wear a bright spot showed what are you calling for ... but as several easy seems that the Chinese government could do firstly let's sex workers advocates speed doubts and organize ... and documents what is happening at the moment that cracking down on any kind of activism ... second it should and arbitrary detention for very long periods you cannot put someone in the labor camp for two years without any kind of trial without them knowing your without any kind of evidence ... third it should stop using condoms as evidence of constitution because that discourage people from caring ... a condom and that's leads to increased health risks ... and forth he needs basically to recognize that you have millions of women in China when gauge in sex work that takes work these tolerate since de facto by states ... and that they need the status and they need rights ... okay thanks Fran much it was back playing tennis for human rights watch for more on that TV gated area stay dot com I'm Deborah con